Media composer / producer / musician based in London.

Tim is a veteran of the London music scene, having played since the early 70s (Dorris Henderson's Eclection, The Kevin Coyne Band, David McWilliams, The Gordon Smith Blues Band) through the 80s with The Poor Boys who were resident band every Saturday at The Caernarvon Castle in Camden, semi-retiring in the 90s and then coming back in the new Millenium to help Dorris make here come back album Here I Go Again in 2002, and playing with The Guvnors (headline act at The Ealing Blues Festival for many years. 

After the death of Dorris Henderson in 2005, it was time to go out and form a band, Tim Penn and The Strange Sins, (CD Down In The Deep 2009) and this has gradually morphed into TIm Penn and The Second Line, a good time piano led, NOLA influenced outfit. 

Tim can be seen regularly down at Dom Pipkin's IKO's New Orleans Music Shop jam, every other Tuesday at The Alleycat in Denmark Street, and with his own band down at The Fox in Twickenham. 

“If the band are having a good time and are enjoying the music on stage, then the audience will dig that and have a ball too. That’s how I play and that’s why I play” 

Ratty Jazz, Drowned Pop

Ian Beetlestone - vocals & piano
Dom Coles - drums & vocals
Tom Fry - bass & vocals
George Simmonds - trombone & vocals
Louis Schultz-Wiremu - saxophone

The Cosimo Matassa Project are a collective of musicians in London, UK, working to conjure up the unique rhythm ‘n’ blues flavours that emerged from New Orleans in the late 1940s and early 1950s. At the core of the band are pianist and arranger Al Dunn (Loudon Wainwright / Richard Thompson), singer and double bassist Dai Price (Dai & The Ramblers) and drummer Roy Pfeffer (The Big Smoke Family). They’re often joined by guest musicians from London’s rhythm ‘n’ blues scene, and members of our collective have played with the likes of Allen Toussaint, James Hunter and Van Morrison. Over the last couple of years the band have become a staple on the R’n’B circuit, gigging around London clubs and bars such as Nightjar in Old Street, Brasserie Zedel in Mayfair and Ronnie Scott’s in Soho.

The entire project is born out of respect for the artists who passed through Cosimo Matassa’s studios, a real love for the music and a desire to summon up the sheer joy that pervades all of Cosimo’s recordings. Playing tunes by well-known artists from that era such as Fats Domino and Big Joe Turner, the band also like to unearth lesser-known gems by the likes of Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry, Dave Bartholomew and Tami Lynn, as well as throwing in a few of their original songs.

Email: thecosimomatassaproject@gmail.com

Original tunes. Inspired by the World. Made in London.

Inspired by global grooves from Caribbean calypso to South African swing, Baraka Jazz has a growing collection of original tunes and improvisations with distinctive Afro-Latin sounds.

Music by Matthew Lucas (keyboards) and James Whittington (trumpet/flugel)

Joplin Parnell is a prominent pianist and vocalist on London’s Jazz and Blues scene and one half of up and coming duo, Such Sweet Thunder. He has lived a life immersed in music having started out at an early age following his piano playing father around New Orleans parades, jam sessions and bars, snare drum in hand whilst days at home were spent receiving a musical education in the back of his mothers audio engineering studio watching her cut records and listening with keen ears. His sets weave a rich tapestry of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues and Brazilian Choro, New York Stride and French Musette with a Tango or two thrown in for good measure drawing influence from the full breadth of his musical heritage and imparting a deep soulful sensibility onto everything he does.

Contact: joplinparnell@gmail.com

London-based pianist, composer, and bandleader.  Modern jazz, traditional jazz, west African-jazz, tango, etc...

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